(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of al-Waer neighborhood in the central Homs city celebrated Friday their first wholesale vegetable market after three years of shelling and siege as regime allowed a daily 12 tons of vegetables to entering the district in binding to a U.N.-mediated deal. Al-Waer's...

(Brookings- Shadi Hamid)- U.S. policy toward Syria is a fascinating, if depressing, case study. Many of my friends and colleagues who work on Syria—nearly all of them, in fact—have been baffled by President Obama’s approach to the Syrian conflict. The administration’s apparent...

Yemeni pro-government forces have advanced to within 40 kilometers (25 miles) of Sanaa in a push towards the rebel-held capital from the northeast, loyalist military sources said Friday. Loyalist forces took the town of Nihm after overrunning the headquarters of the renegade pro-rebel 312th...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 16 civilians killed in Russian air strikes on the besieged countryside of Homs, activists and monitoring group said Friday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights and local activists said 14 people killed on Friday in missile attack on al-Ghanto town in the northern...